David Corbett's Blog

• The Great San Quentin Literary Throwdown

  June 22, 2010

  • On June 11th and 18th, 2010, Bay Area authors Keith and Kent Zimmerman, in association with Litquake http://litquake.org/ , hosted the very first Literary Throwdown inside the walls of San Quentin State Prison. It took place at the Zimmerman brothers' Creative Writing Class on the San Quentin H-Unit yard. I joined five other authors from the outside - Joe Loya http://www.joeloya.com/ , Bucky ...
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• Women Make the Best Detectives

  June 2, 2010

  • Or so it seemed to me in my fifteen years as a private investigator. Yes, I'm talking real-life detectives here, and specifically three of the women I worked with. The most famous, and the materfamilias for the others, is Sandra Sutherland, who was my boss, along with her husband Jack Palladino. Together they lent their names to arguably the best investigation firm west of the Mississippi: ...
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• Life is Luck and the Lucky are Scared

  May 26, 2010

  • In my first novel, The Devil's Redhead, one of my characters makes that pronouncement, equating life with luck, and being lucky with terror. It was my way of describing the anxiety I saw in so many of the nouveau riche clients my wife Terri and I saw in her law practice, well-to-do people with real money for the first time in their lives and terrified, every minute of every day, that it might ...
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